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Miserden Estate Gates
These historic gates sit at one of the entrances to the garden of Miserden House in Gloucestershire. While there is other historical ironwork of note around the house and gardens, these gates stand ou…
Seville Gates Maintenance
The Seville gates were significantly restored by Alex in 2013, and we returned in 2020 to perform some long-term maintenance on this unusual set of gates. In the intervening years there had been a sig…
Mayfair Railings
This was a project in which we became involved following removal of a set of railings from a prestigious location in Mayfair. Unfortunately the railings were removed by a demolitions contractor, meani…
Slimbridge
In 2018 we were approached as part of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust’s “Slimbridge 2020” program. We were asked to undertake restoration work to their historic duck decoy. Two of th…
Repoussé copper leaves
This was a small job which involved replicating two repoussé copper leaves. These were replicated using traditional forging techniques.
Caledonian Clock Tower – Dragon
The Caledonian Clock Tower was the centrepiece of the metropolitan cattle market which opened in 1855. The substantial dragon that tops the weathervane was stripped of previous coatings prior to our a…
Caledonian Clock Tower – Cardinal Points
The scrollwork below the dragon and supporting the cardinal points had a rich stratum of previous repairs attempting to rectify extensive historic damage. Position and available resources precluded di…
Hurst Castle
During 2017 we worked at Hurst Castle to conserve and restore railings and ammunition locker doors on the ¼ mile long rooftop. Working at Hurst Castle required a number of both logistical and technica…
Screens
This substantial and impressive set of screens on a private estate had near universal coating failure and as a result were badly corroded. With their fine forging and extensive leaf work they are a vi…
Seville Gates
The below gates belong to a private client in Wiltshire, and are stated as coming from Seville Cathedral in 1913. We have studied them and believe that the components could be contemporary with t…
De Misa Mausoleum
The conservation and restoration of the ironwork on this late Victorian mausoleum in London was carried out in conjunction with main contractors Cliveden Conservation, who were carrying out conservati…
Wing Church
This job required restoring the rail heads at Wing Church in Buckinghamshire. The rail heads had been damaged and had deteriorated to an advanced stage, with one of the heads snapped in two, another s…
Chevithorne Gates
The Chevithorne Gates belong to a private client in Devon. They asked us to restore the gates to their former glory in a sympathetic way, though with the emphasis on a high quality finish. The gates a…
18th Century Gates
English Heritage partially funded the conservation and restoration of these 18th century Grade 2* listed iron gates on the behalf of a private client. Treatment of these gates included both restoratio…